The New Nigeria Peoples Party’s (NNPP) ongoing leadership crisis has taken a new turn after the party’s new leadership, led by Dr. Agbo Gilbert Major, decided to launch an investigation into the misappropriation of more than N1 billion from the sale of forms to candidates in the general elections of 2023.
The new leadership announced its intention to restructure the party’s infrastructure at all levels nationally in the upcoming days and weeks and requested written complaints from candidates who felt they had been wronged after paying for forms into the party’s account.
This decision was made and made accessible to Platinum Times in a statement made by the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, following a first meeting on Sunday at the Abuja National Secretariat.
The party decided to form a committee to conduct an investigation after questioning the reasoning behind the Situation Room’s proximity to the presidential candidate’s home.
According to the statement, the site allowed for significant corruption and manipulation, which resulted in the imposition of candidates.
According to Abdulrasaq, the party also confirmed that it had withdrawn from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it had signed with the Kwankwasiya Movement and The National Movement (TNM), stressing that the ideals of those two organizations did not align with the party’s objectives of inclusivity and openness.
In order to uphold the principles of equity and fairness that the party upholds, the party, according to Abdulrasaq, decided to investigate why other candidates for president were denied the opportunity to purchase ballots and take part in the primary election that it claimed was conducted illegally and resulted in Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
He also urged the party’s countless members and supporters to maintain their composure in the face of what it called the “brazen assault of the Kwankwasiya movement,” whose followers were falsely persuaded to believe the party had been sold to them.
The leadership of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) under Dr Agbo Gilbert Major today had its maiden meeting at the Abuja National Secretariat and after a review of the situation resulting from the gross mismanagement of the party in the past one year came out with the following resolutions:
“To conduct a thorough probe into the mismanagement of well over one billion naira (N1b) raised from the sale of forms to aspirants between March 2022 and today. The meeting resolved to invite relevant security agencies to properly examine the accounts of the party with a view to demanding explanations from the party’s presidential candidate, the party’s chairman who left in March 2023, the sacked acting chairman and the National Secretary. This is to restore confidence of party members/candidates who came forward with their hard earned money to purchase forms,” part of the statement read.